Fra Mauro

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	This area is usually designated as the northern part of the Mare Nubium with Oceanus Procellarum further to the west (in the shadow in this picture). However in the 1970s the region was renamed Mare Insularum (The Sea of Islands), but there appears to be scanty evidence that an associated basin actually exists. The area contains the landing sites of both Apollo 12 and Apollo 14. The scale markers indicate approximately 100 Km north and east. The picture was taken with my LX200 on 18th February 2005 at 20:57 UT when the Moon was 10.0 days old. Date and Time: 18th February 2005 20:57 UT Camera: ToUcam 740K Telescope: LX200 Capture: K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/250", 10% gain, 455 frames Processing: Registax. 275 frames stacked. Wavelets 1-2 = 10, wavelet 3 = 5
	This is a slightly wider-angle shot of the same general area taken with my ETX125. The scale markers indicate approximately 100 Km north and east. The picture was taken on 15th July 2005 at 20:13 UT when the Moon was 8.5 days old.  (Unfortunately I accidentally deleted the files containing the exposure details from my laptop before I had transferred them to my desktop machine.) Date and Time: 15th July 2005 20:13 UT Camera: ToUcam 740K Telescope: ETX125 Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 827 frames @ 10 fps, infra-red light Processing: Registax. 274 frames stacked. Wavelets 1-3 = 10, contrast 150, brightness -32
	An ancient and battered crater, Fra Mauro is about 4,000 million years old.  It is 100 km in diameter and appears to have been flooded by lava from Mare Nubium.  Parry, on the other hand, is believed to be of the same age but looks as though it may have avoided flooding (although its flat floor may indicate otherwise).  It is 50 Km in diameter and only 560 metres deep, which suggests that it has been flooded but that its walls were higher than those of Fra Mauro.   Apollo 14 landed just north of here.  Click on the image below to see a maosaic of the area indicating the landing site. The scale marks in the bottom left-hand corner indicate approximately 50 Km north and east. The picture was taken with my LX200 on 7th October 2004 at 03:18 UT when the Moon was 22.8 days old.
	Click on the image to see a mosaic covering a larger area around Fra Mauro.

Date and Time	7th October 2004 03:18 UT
Camera	ToUcam 740K
Telescope	LX200 with X2 teleadaptor lens
Capture	K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/50", 33% gain, 313 frames
Processing	Registax. 162 frames stacked. Wavelet 1-3 = 10

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